19CRelevant employer fails to comply with Act if employer fails to improve against gender equality standard

19C Relevant employer fails to comply with Act if employer fails to improve against gender equality standard

If: (a) a relevant employer lodges a public report under section 13A in respect of a reporting period (the base period); and (b) in a case where a gender equality standard (the base standard) applies in relation to the employer and the base period—at the end of the base period, the employer fails to meet that standard; and (c) the employer lodges a public report under section 13A in respect of the second reporting period (the comparison period) after the base period; and (d) at the end of the comparison period, the employer’s performance against the base standard has failed to improve from the employer’s performance against that standard at the end of the base period; then the failure referred to in paragraph (d) is taken, for the purposes of section 19D, to be a failure to comply with this Act.

Note: If the employer does not have a reasonable excuse for the failure referred to in paragraph (d) of this section, the Agency may name the employer in a report given to the Minister or by electronic or other means: see section 19D.